• sping@lemmy.sdf.org
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      5 days ago

      Windows will never come close to replacing Linux! There’s way more Linux out there than there is Windows.

      Presumably you mean on the personal desktop. In which case I still disagree in the very long term. I think at some point Windows will be replaced by *nix based systems in the vein of OSX and Chrome OS.

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      7 days ago

      It doesn’t even matter how good Linux is or how bad Windows gets, Linux is lacking the one thing that made Windows mainstream: Billions of dollars in marketing and brand recognition.

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      7 days ago

      I’m sure people didn’t think Internet Explorer would be replaced either.

      But if your product is dog shit log enough, people will move